Salomón González Blanco

Salomón González Blanco (22 April 1900 – 17 March 1992) was a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served 12 years as Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare, in addition to terms in the Senate, as a Supreme Court justice and as governor of Chiapas.

Career Salomón González Blanco was born in Catazajá, Chiapas, in 1900. He graduated from the law school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1927.

In 1934 he served four months in the Senate as an alternate senator for Tabasco.

In 1947 he began working at the Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare (STPS). In 1958 he was appointed secretary of labour, a position that he held under three successive presidents (Ruiz Cortines, López Mateos and Díaz Ordaz) until 1970. They had four children, including Patrocinio González Garrido, who served as governor of Chiapas from 1988 to 1993.